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by guest on 2008-05-04 17:15, replies: 1, translation: pl, related to: no border, 2008-06-06

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Close Frontex! FRONTEXplode – protest Fri 6 June 2008 in Warsaw against the border policy of the European Union

source: http://cia.bzzz.net/fighting_the_border_regime

Common Call for a Transnational Chain of Migration-related Actions In the “heart of the monster”: Amsterdam, Sevilla, Torino, Bamako, London, Athens, Warsaw, Hamburg, Malmoe, Ceuta …

Between February and October 2008 a series of events, protests and actions will take place in various cities and countries all over Europe and beyond : against the border regime, against detentions and deportations, against the exploitation of migrant labour and for legalization of all migrants. This transnational chain of struggles builds on the three action days for freedom of movement and the right to stay, which happened in previous years. But with this chain of events we are aiming for someth…

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by bush go to hel on 2008-04-07 23:48, translation: pl, related to: state terrorism, US antimissile shield

extract from ABC POZNAN REPORT

The arrest and charges against the participants of the demonstration against U.S. missile base in Poland.

Słupsk, 29-30 March 2008

partial translation from rozbrat.org : please complete this, it’s a wiki page. click on pl for the full polish version.

One of the witness statements:

_Before 6 a.m. we heard banging at the door, I would like to emphasize that it was not knocking, it was banging the door with a fist. The owner of the flat went to the door and said he can see policemen in the staircase but couldn’t tell how many of them. He came back to the room where most of the not sleeping people were and told us what he’s just seen. He went out to the staircase, together with a friend who stood in the door. The cops were aggressive and were shouting at them using swearwords. At one point, one policemen knocked the owner of the flat down, the other friend tried to close the door and as aski…

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by guest on 2008-04-07 12:38, replies: 2, translation: pl, related to: state terrorism

The [Polish] Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski and the German Minister of Foreign Affairs today [7 April 2008] gave a common press conference at the Kujawsko-Pomorskie regional governmental office [in the town of Bydgoszcz 45km downriver from Toruń]. A single person picket welcomed them with the statement “Politicians to the [war-]front – soldiers home”. The person picketting was photographed by BOR and twice had his identity taken by police. The guests laid flowers in front of the statue to victims of fascism, which soon will be removed from the Town Square based on an initiative by the political party [in government] PO.

by guest on 2008-03-30 06:27, replies: 2, translation: pl, related to: US antimissile shield

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POLAND: REPRESSION

Brutal detentions of sleeping activists in Słupsk after anti-missile shield protests

Early morning, Sunday 30 March 2008, the day after protests against the US anti-missile missiles (en) (pl) to be placed in Słupsk, Poland, about 23-25 activists were detained (pl) in Słupsk, from several cities including Szczecin and Poznań. It appears that the police raided a private home while people were sleeping and that the human rights activists were brutally treated and beaten. Police used tear gas and one person has a broken hand. Please telephone to the police station…

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by guest on 2008-03-29 14:17, translation: pl, related to: US antimissile shield

anti-missile protest in Slupsk – live report

source (polish), by Czytelnik CIA, Czw, 2008-03-27 17:33:

http://cia.bzzz.net/demonstracja_antytarczowa_w_slupsku

translation – wikified

On Saturday 29 March in Slupsk, demonstrators from around Poland went to protest against the installation of parts of the u.s.-american so-called “Anti-missile Shield” in Redzikowo

LIVE REPORT – all times are GMT+1

  • 19.00 – the person detained after 17.00 was given a fine of 650 zł [160 euro, a little under one month’s minimum wage] “for loitering and swearing”.
  • 19.30 – Our reporter informed us that at the end of the protest in front of the main gate in Redzikowo another two people were detained. One of them was taken as a result of what happened at the gate. Both people have already been freed.
  • 17.15 – on Tuwima Street in Słupsk one person was detained, according to witnesses, the person b…

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